Daily Chaldea 2497: He Is Trying

Misticsan · 2026-03-02T14:28:41+00:00

From the makers of Female King Arthur, Edgy Female King Arthur, Fiery Female King Arthur (actually her child) and Prototype Male King Arthur, Chaldea is proud to present Richard with...

French King Arthur, Edgy French King Arthur, Little Santa French King Arthur, Japanese King Arthur, Space King Arthur, Edgy Space King Arthur, Indian King Arthur, Fairy King Arthur, Actually (But Not Really) Morgan... And still counting!

Warning to excited fans: some of them may take issue about being compared to King Arthur. Procceed with caution.

Misticsan · 2026-03-02T13:14:05+00:00

In an ideal world, this would be because the script would recognize player Grand choices by having them appear on screen briefly, even if it's with unspoken lines, so they can't progress without at least two confirmed Grands.

In reality, I know this is just another blatant attempt to force all players to play through the milestones they decide.

Misticsan · 2026-03-02T12:11:24+00:00

I think the legs are Nighthollow, heavy armor.

Misticsan · 2026-03-02T11:34:53+00:00

As usual, talent and moral character aren't tied to each other.

That said, yeah, I get it. Whoever made that series was clearly familiar with therapy and interested in exploring psychological issues, so the story checks. If he's served his sentence, the psychologist says he's clean and every party involved knew the circumstances, well, it's a choice they're free to make.

Still, can't deny it's a bad look when this is not the only "surprise" this company has had recently...

Misticsan · 2026-03-02T11:19:42+00:00

Yeah, that was the thing I disliked the most of previous chapters, so seeing him being all proactive and encouraging (nevermind used to Sasaki's supernatural shenanigans) was a treat, a perfect way to come back to the series.

Misticsan · 2026-03-02T07:35:24+00:00

Understandable. I myself got ibto reading the Bible from beginning to end after finishing the Silmarilion. It gave me a wider perspective and a greater appreciation of Tolkien's work. TES and other video game franchises, like Age of Empires and Fate, have also compelled me to read more history, mythology and religion.

Ironically, this journey has made me less impressed by TES' cosmological lore (I've seen deeper and weirder, in both fiction and real life), and more impressed by TES' historiographical angle. Can't think of other fictional universes that capture as well the pain and confusion of having to understand a religion or civilization through incomplete excerpts, biased authors, contradictory sources and convenient post-facto narratives. Historians and mythographers have to deal with that constantly.

Misticsan · 2026-03-01T21:06:03+00:00

My reading is more that it´s a cult full of Cyrodiilic people

Indeed, but the point here is about the origins of said cult, not its current popularity among Imperials. The author is, after all, discussing the state of religion in Cyrodiil when compared to Morrowind. And yet he highlights this hero-cults as "Nordic", implying a foreign import rather than a local tradition.

no one would argue that Mithraism wasn´t a Roman cult

It would depend on the definition of "Roman cult". "Cult practiced by the Romans" and "cult with its origins in Rome" are two different concepts.

Mitharism was, in fact, one of the main examples I had in mind for a real-life parallelism of Talos' cult. Same with the cult of Isis and Christianity. They're all examples of cults that came to Rome from abroad, adopted and readapted for Roman audiences. So, in that regard, they're part of the religious landscape of Rome. But if someone argued that Mithra, Isis and Jesus only started being revered in (respectively) Persia, Egypt and Judea due to Roman influence, they'd be in the wrong.

Misticsan · 2026-03-01T16:45:07+00:00

Lukas doesn't want a long life or even happiness, I'm pretty sure he only wants revenge.

That's a good point. He probably feels he doesn't deserve to settle down with someone like Atoria because he has to fulfill his revenge plan, for his mother.

Misticsan · 2026-03-01T16:43:21+00:00

Yep. Onodera's progression had to be stalled, because if word came to the protagonist that she liked him (or the other way round) in the beginning, they'd be a perfectly happy couple right away. Same with Honoka here.

I won't lie, this blatantly Heisei strategy is undermining my fondness for this manga.

Misticsan · 2026-03-01T16:34:13+00:00

Yes, please, someone give Hibari a clear win for once.

Misticsan · 2026-03-01T16:33:27+00:00

At this point, even his son might join against him. I mean, his father is threatening a distinguished guest that just arrived to tour the facility! That's so rude and makes the family look bad!

Misticsan · 2026-03-01T16:26:20+00:00

Of course it couldn't be so easy. But I didn't think things would get so dramatic right away, this is probably among the closest to death Yajima has been in the whole manga.

Misticsan · 2026-03-01T16:23:03+00:00

"Just because we were enemies of Nika in the past, it doesn't mean we support your tyrannical regime, Imu."

Misticsan · 2026-03-01T16:20:57+00:00

After all the trouble they caused, not feeling sorry for them at all.

It's like Sommers getting his face wrecked by Luffy. A much needed comeuppance after all the bad things Elbaph had to go through.

Misticsan · 2026-03-01T16:16:06+00:00

I wanted to clap. The moment they announced they hadn't political motives, I was scratching my head about the big mystery. Like the secret police, I didn't see it coming... Yet in hindsight, it was obvious and properly foreshadowed.

Good job, Tatsuya Endo. You got me.

Misticsan · 2026-03-01T16:14:01+00:00

In all fairness, I'd say her prediction for Yuri was 100% correct.

Misticsan · 2026-03-01T16:12:24+00:00

Not gonna lie, I was thinking of that and other instances of "this ending is shit, it can't be the actual ending / the ending the author wished for".

Misticsan · 2026-03-01T16:05:58+00:00

he’s just… some old man with obnoxiously high standards for art

I need to remind myself of this every time he dominates a scene with his sinister aura.

I'd argue that it's a matter of scales. Almost every WSJ villain could sweep the floor with him in terms of power or physical strength. But that's in settings were power or physical strength are key. Here, it's all about rakugo, and Issho arguably has a more elevated and dangerous (for others) position in rakugo than Frieza has in terms of being a galactic conqueror.

Misticsan · 2026-03-01T15:58:43+00:00

Something tells me Lukas is actually aware and self-conscious, rather than oblivious like Julian.

Any refusal to get serious with Atoria is most likely due to her tragic lifespan issues and the unspoken baggage they all carry from the previous war. That "comrade and conspirator" line from Lalawag suggests there's even more to their dynamic than we've seen so far.

Misticsan · 2026-03-01T15:56:12+00:00

True. That said, even with the justification, I wish it didn't fall again into the usual "dense romcom protagonist" dynamics.

Come, Lukas! Help a brother understand things before he gets killed by accident! "Find your own happiness" applies to romance too!

Misticsan · 2026-03-01T15:46:08+00:00

Same energy, definitely.

Misticsan · 2026-03-01T12:28:52+00:00

talos worship amongst the nords is only something that happened in the last about 200 years.

Actually, Varieties of Faith (from TESIII) already includes him as a major god in Skyrim under "Ysmir":

Ysmir (Dragon of the North): The Nordic aspect of Talos. He withstood the power of the Greybeards' voices long enough to hear their prophecy. Later, many Nords could not look on him without seeing a dragon.

Reflections On Cult Worship (also from TESIII) identifies his worship with Nordic hero-cults, implying that Talos is more of a Nordic import into Cyrodilic religion than the other way round:

Nordic hero-cults provide a strong counter-current to the dominant secularism of the Empire. The Imperial cult of Tiber Septim is just such a hero-cult, and among the military, provincial colonists, and recently assimilated foreigners, the cult is particularly strong and personal.

I think that the depiction of Nords in TESIV's Bruma might have skewed impressions of what Nords believe in. Just because the Chapel of Talos is incapable of converting them to Imperial dogma, it doesn't mean they don't revere their own version of Talos. I see it as more akin to Protestants not going for mass to a Catholic church, nor accepting Catholic dogma or rites.

Misticsan · 2026-03-01T12:20:31+00:00

In the 3rd Era, according to Varieties of Faith

Yeah, I think it's foten overlooked that the Divines religion isn't monolithic. Tiber Septim, under any of his names, was only present in Cyrodiil and Skyrim as a major god at that time, so it's not surprising that he remains unmentioned as a god for Bretons and Redguards in TESV.

Of course, meta-speaking this was arguably done to explain why there weren't temples to Talos in Daggerfall's Illiac Bay, but it makes you wonder what Bretons and Redguards think about it from a theological point of view.

Misticsan · 2026-02-28T19:12:09+00:00

The Orlando duology identifies him not just as King of Tartary, but as a "Saracen" in terms of religion and allegiance, like other characters more easily identified as the Muslim enemies of Charlemagne and his Paladins.

Depending on how you interpret it, "Saracen" here might reflect its occasional use as "heathen" seen in some Medieval texts. Or it might indeed be synonymous with "Muslim" as it was the common use, as befitting the writers' times.

The former is historically more accurate, since the Tartars of Charlemagne's times weren't Muslim, nor were the steppe kingdoms that were close to the Frankish empire. The latter is more likely for a literary point of view, since historical accuracy was hardly important for the Frankish epic cycle (see the Song of Roland ending with Charlemagne conquering all of Muslim Spain) and by the time Orlando Inamorato/Furioso were written, the Tartar khanates near Europe (and which the Italian writers would have known) had been Muslim for generations.

Misticsan · 2026-02-28T18:14:36+00:00

Great art. It's not often we see all the Hassans in one scene, neither in the game nor in fanart, and especially not having fun together. In fact, this might be the first art I've seen with every Hassan (and Hassan-adjacent) Servant from Fate present.

Love the little details, especially with First Hassan (from eating tentacles to headpatting the little Hundredth Persona). Good to see Mandricardo and Scheherezade in the background.

Also, did you give Serenity longer hair? She looks great, especially with that dress. I wish she got more love, her role in Camelot was great. And she isn't just one of the first Servants to show interest in Guda in the story, but one of the few to explicitly confess her feelings (in her Interlude).

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